My 21st!

Livia, Komal, Me (At the Club)

The Bus on the way to North Bridge

The Costume Party

Me, Rhys, Matt, Komal, Nathan

About to make a bday wish

Me and Divya

At the Waterford on Weds

Well I am officially 21 now…and I had an amazing Australian birthday! The celebration began Wednesday at Karaoke night at the Waterford Bar. It wasn’t even my birthday yet, but somebody told the D.J. it was my birthday so everyone sang happy birthday to me. I had my first real drink since I’ve been here that night at the bar, and it was of course a girly fruity drink. And a few hours later I had a Yager bomb…quite the experience. The bar closed at midnight (as everything in perth closes early) and my friends and I went to catch the courtesy bus back to our residence, but somehow even though we were the first ones waiting at the bus stop and It was MY birthday, everyone else rushed to the bus before Jenn and me, and we couldn’t get on. So we decided to go back to my friend Komal’s house which is right by the bus stop to wait for the next bus. So we hung out there for a while, but Jenn, Benedikt and I were really hungry since we hadn’t eaten anything since dinner, so we walked to Rhys’ house because he had lots of Chinese leftovers. Finally we headed home, but along the way we had to dodge all the sprinklers as we walked back across campus. It was a pretty adventurous first few hours of my birthday.

The next morning (Thursday), I woke up and opened all my packages and cards. Thank you all for all the birthdays wishes and cards! After class I came back home to get ready from my birthday party. We decided to have a Disney/Pixar Costume party. Earlier that week a few of my friends and I went to salvation army thrift store to get items for our costumes. I decided to be Tinkerbell (with Drea’s help of course). It was interesting afternoon because for some strange reason my cell phone wasn’t working properly, so I had no idea what was going on. I found out that none of my text messages were getting sent to my friends. It was kind of more interesting that way though, because everything was more of a surprise. I finally arrived at Komal’s house a little late, and the whole common room was decorated and Jenn had made a casserole, fruit salad, and a chocolate cake. It was also really exciting because my friend Divya was able to come as well, and this was the first time she has gotten to meet my other friends. Everyone did a great job with the costumes as well. We had Genie and Rajaj from Aladdin, Pocahontas, Cards from Alice in Wonderland, an Emperor, and few random costumes. A little later in the night we turned the common room into a dance floor.

And, for some reason, my birthday continued on Friday as well. I went to my small group as usual, and then we had an international dinner afterward at Michelle’s house. Almost everyone (and by everyone I mean about 10 of us) brought a dish from their country. All the food was quite delicious. Then, I got a ride home so I could get ready for Northbridge, which is the downtown area of Perth where all the night clubs are. Friday was my first time going to Northbridge, and it’s the first time I have gone out to a club. We took a bus into the city at around 10:30. There were about twenty of us all going together and we took up the whole back of the bus, and my friends decided the bus ride was an appropriate time to sing happy birthday even though it was no longer my birthday. Once we got off the bus, it had started misting and we had quite a long walk, but we finally arrived at a club called “The Deen”. We danced so much that night, and I was pretty tired when we left around 2am. I had a lot of fun, and of course there was some drama. I’ll probably go again sometime but it isn’t exactly somewhere I want to go every weekend :)